Combat Medic Archive

CM

Combat Medic

Combat - 1. to oppose in battle; fight against ... also to engage in fighting, especially armed batte

Medic - 1. a member of the miltary medical corps. 2. A physician or surgeon

As you can see from these definitions from The American Heritage College Dictionary a CM is specifically a medicaly trained profession who is actively engaged in front line healing and combat.

Therefore, to imply that in game only docs should heal is factually incorrect, as by definition a CM is on parin healing abilty with a Doc, just with a different specialty.

Furthermore, to imply that a CM who can create and distribute a poison or disease would not have the abilty to cure said diseases is not contextually accurate. It would be more accurate to say that a Doc should not, but as there is a specific specialty you need to obtain that skill, it does make sense ( ie a general practitioner who specializes in poison control would be able to do general healing as well as treat poison victims)

It does make sense that a CM should have the abilty to heal in the field, because that is what they are intended to do, both in RL and in the context of the game. CM actually requires more Skill Points to obtain because of the 0004 Marksman requirement. That should not imply that CM should be able to treat wounds, as that is a specialty of Doc training, but it would reasonably make sense for a CM to be able to obtain a cure poison and cure disease abilty, especially at Master level.